Clothes-marker.



J. WEAVER, JR. & A. MARTIN.

v CLOTHES MARKER. AlfPLIOATION FILED FBB.13 ,1909.

930,005. Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

3 Rome/1 s JEROME WEAVER, JR, AND ARTHUR MARTIN, or rirrsisuae, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-MAKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

Application filed. February 13 1909. Serial No. 477,584.

To all wlzmn it may concern:

Be it known that we, JEROME l navna, J11, and ARTHUR MARTIN, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Markers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying rawing.

This invention relates to a clothes marker, and the invention has for its object to provide a novel marker for providing clothes with a name, whereby when the same are sent to a laundry, the clothes can be easily identified.

Another object of this invention is to pro vide a clothes marker that can be easily and quickly manipulated to stamp a name upon a piece of lining or similar piece of cloth, the marker having interchangeable type, permitting of the marker being used in connection with various names.

o attain the above objects by constructing a marker along the principle of a pair of pliers, providing one of the gripping members with detachable type, that can be arranged in the member and easily inked, whereby when a piece of cloth is gripped between the members, the name will be applied thereto.

The detail construction will be hereinafter described, and reference will now be had to the drawing forming a part of this application, wherein there is illustrated the preferred embodiments of the invention, but it is to be understood that the detail construction thereof can be varied or changed withoutdeparting rom the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a clothes marker constructed in accordance with our invention, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of the marker, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of the inking pad used in connection with the marker.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 and 2 designate handles having bifurcated ends 3, pivotally connected together, as at 4:, and pivotally mounted as at 5, in the bifurcated ends of the handles 1 and 2 are gripping members 6 and 7, said members extending into the handles 1 and 2 respectively, whereby when said handles are pressed toward one another, the gripping members 6 and 7 will be moved toward each other and ap proximately in parallel planes.

The outer end ofthe gripping member 7 is provided with a socket 8 for the depending yoke 9 of a type case 10 adapted to contain type 11 and a spacer block 12, said type and spacer block being retained within the case 10 by a set screw 13. To hold the type case 10 in engagement with the member 7, a set screw 1a is employed, said screw extending upwardly through the member 7 near the outer end thereof and into the case 10, as is shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The type 11 can be made of rubber and by loosening the screw 13 can be easily removed to permit of other type being placed in the case.

The outer end of the member 6 is provided with a socket 15 to receive a tongue 16 carried by a plate 17, said plate constituting a platen and being held in engagement with the member 6 by a set screw 18 similar to the set screw lff of the member 7.

In connection with the marking device, we use an inking pad comprising a holder 19 and an ink pad 20, the pad 20 being made of a material capable of retaining the ink,

whereby when the pad is placed in engage ment with the type 11 and the members 6 and 7 closed, the type will be sufiiciently coated with ink to mark a piece of cloth with which the type contacts.

It will be observed that it is only necessary to ink the type 11 and then place the piece of cloth to be marked between the plate 17 and the case 10 and close the members 6 and 7 by pressing the handles 1 and 2.

The case 10 is preferably made in the form of a box, whereby the type can be easily arranged therein and positively held in position by the spacer plate 12 and set screw 13, while the plate 17 conforms in plan to the case 10, whereby all of the type will be brought into engagement with a piece of cloth clamped between said plate and the type 11.

The marker in its entirety can be made of light and durable metal and of such a size as to be conveniently operated for marking clothes.

Having now described our invention what we claim as new, is

1. A clothes marking device, comprising handles having bifurcated ends, said handles being pivotally connected together adjacent to said bifurcated ends, members pivotally type case detachably mounted in t-hesocket.

of one of said members, a plate detachably supported in the socket of the other of said members, and a type detachably mounted in said type case, substantially as. andt'or the.

purpose herein described.

2. A clothes marking device comprisingmovable members, said members havmg sockets formed therein, a typecase having a tongue detachably heldin the socket of one of said members, type-detachably arranged Within said case, a plate having a tongue detachablysupported in the socket of the other of said members-and adapted to cooperate. with said type, and handles for operating said members, said handles having bifurcated ends to receive the members, substantially as described.

Intestimony. whereof We afiiX our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

JEROME WEAVER, JP..- ARTHUR MARTIN. lVit-nesses MAX .H. ESRQLOVITZ, C. V; BROOKS. 

